Toño's walk

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo and his wife, Dolores Fierros, pose with their children, Ernesto, 11, and Maria, 9, after their first communion at a Catholic church near their hometown of Villa Erendira, Mexico. Peña died in Brooks County in August 2012 while trying to reach a construction job in Oklahoma to pay for Maria’s medical care.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo swims in a river near his Mexican hometown of Villa Erendira with his daughter, Maria, 9. Peña died in Brooks County in August 2012 while trying to reach a construction job in Oklahoma to pay for Maria’s medical care and improve his family’s quality of life.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Friends and family of Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo leave his gravesite at the cemetery near his hometown of Villa Erendira, Mexico, in August. They marked the anniversary of his death trying to enter the United States through Brooks County.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Friends of Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo light a candle for him in the cemetery near his Mexican hometown of Villa Erendira in August. They marked the anniversary of his death trying to enter the United States through Brooks County.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Friends and family of Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo attend his gravesite near his hometown of Villa Erendira in August. They marked the anniversary of his death trying to enter the United States through Brooks County.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Jose Antonio Peña Hidalgo (right) poses with his grandmother, Cecilia, and his oldest daughter, Monserrat, after her first communion near their hometown of Villa Erendira, Mexico. Peña died in Brooks County in August 2012 while trying to reach a construction job in Oklahoma to pay for his youngest daughter’s medical care and improve his family’s quality of life.